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Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters.

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An attorney who was caught citing 3 non-existent cases due to GenAI use last Fall has been sanctioned and fined $15,000. This paragraph, pointing put that it is actually easier to double check legal citations than ever before, applies to many situations

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“… unless, of course, the people of Boston know they don’t have to open the door to an immigration warrant, in which case Hell and I will stand around with our dicks in our hand like we did in Chicago and LA.”

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Watch him choose Paul or Mark as his name.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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TFW you budget for one cocktail and then regret your order.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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I think turning an old ocean liner into a massive artificial reef is cool.

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Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Bob Jobs, Bob Cash, Bob Constitution, Bob Vaccines, Bob Air Traffic Controllers

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This American Life re-aired a brilliant episode, guest-hosted by Emanuele Berry, this weekend. Produced 2 years ago, when "CRT" was the acronym being used to justify segregation and censorship. www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-...

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Therapist: What do we say to people to let them know we’re welcoming them into our lives? Me: What good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this? Therapist: No.

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I don't claim deep expertise about Mobile, but I lived there for a few years and I am unaware of any recent large, open left-leaning protests. There have been some small LGBTQ+ rights protests by city hall since 2023, and there was one big BLM march in 2020, but this gathering today is very unusual.

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Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.

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I feel like I don't know enough to confidently counter specific instances, but can I at least say generally that people are being very loose with current event-motivated financial advice right now?

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These southern accents on The White Lotus are going to kill me.

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Wealthy people pay others to do tedious or difficult essential labor, but this leaves them with none of the traditional markers of gender identity they covet and so they compensate for this insecurity with exaggerated performances of masculinity and femininity bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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People are so dumb. Locals started calling a bridge in town "Skeleton Bridge" just because a human skeleton, animated by some vulgar but unknown necromantic magicks, OCCASIONALLY crosses it. I'm talking 2-3 times a day max. You know how many cars cross it a day? Why not call it Car Bridge? smh

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In front of Lurie children’s hospital in Chicago, hundreds of people are showing up to defend access to gender-affirming care for trans youth!! ❤️❤️❤️

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From a federal court decision blocking Trump's anti-trans healthcare order: "The Court cannot fathom discrimination more direct than the plain pronouncement of a policy resting on the premise that the group to which the policy is directed does not exist."

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Jokerfied by this Facebook group post I saw where somebody asked if it's possible to get a 2bd apartment in a desirable Chicago neighborhood for under $2K and a bunch of delusional commenters earnestly cautioned them that the answer was "no". You're terrible at apartment hunting if you think that!

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Tryin' to imagine makin' a billion dollars scribblin' about baby wizards and whatnot, then sittin' in my castle, rage-tweetin' at trans people all day. Guuurl you won at life. It's cool to just sign out and take everyone your ass has ever known to Wingstop.

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Starbucks barista is not exactly the kind of high-pay, high-status position that I thought these people would be seeking to re-segregate first, but I guess the idea here is that women and people of color are so dramatically inferior as to be unfit for any employment at all.

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The Times would finger wag whenever a Democrat tried to pin Project 2025 on Trump during the campaign. I am glad the reality is clear enough now that they're covering all the ways he is using it as his blueprint. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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In case you needed a continued reason to protest Lurie’s “complying in advance” decision to pause gender affirming surgeries Reshared with alt text from @jakewittich.bsky.social

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I hope those of you in Chicago who don't work Saturdays can give them another rapid evolution to assess.

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Actually, this is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. There were a thousand little complex procedural things that happened after the night of martial law, and conservatives were successfully dragging their heels on impeachment. The opposition party fought them tooth and nail in comms —

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I need a laugh, and seeing Aaron Rodgers get canned with this kind of passive aggressive HR speak did it for me.

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I have been on an SSRI since October, and in combination with talk therapy and some external life-circumstance improvements, I am healthier than I have been my entire adult life. Just throwing that out there!

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everyone right now

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Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

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It's good that people who know little about our banking system are alarmed by the FDIC staffing debacle. It's not good that these same people are trying to explain to others what's going on.

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Interesting to see former #NHPoli governor Chris Sununu make this claim given that at $146K he made more than most professors in New Hampshire and also left politics because he wanted to make more money, which he is doing by shitting on civil servants on CNN www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIIP...

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